Mothering Without Motherhood

I wanted to ask you about the notion of mothering, absent of gender as a kind of love ethic. And I also think about what Gayle Lewis says about black feminism being a project of ethical relation. There's this incredible piece by Jennifer Nash about love politics and black feminism is very sort of pointed, very rageful, extraordinarily wise love politics. But slash and I'm curious if there is still this sort of pointing to the family that's happening with the metaphor of kin and kinship, right? Like the only way I know how to tell you that you are really right or die for me is to almost like point a little bit, like pretend that there is this like bio,